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CPR would not work after a shooting, a tourniquet would stop the bleeding. Better yet, keeping the worst guns out of shooters hands would help. Just like I am not against people having a .50 cal rifle, just keeping the worst ammo out of civilian hands, including the Raufoss cartridge.

Also, I am surprised nobody has mentioned the rifle range under a high school stadium.

One aspect of 6 streetcar problem is planners should have built the CCC as part of the South Lake Union line, first. People point to Portland’s success, but Portland built a loop first, running from Portland State University to the Pearl District. Then a couple dimple extensions south to OHSU, then the Eastside Loop, with options that are now endless. They now have an order from another manufacturer, Brookville Equipment, which got into the business, refurbishing streetcars from three legacy systems, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. Interesting how Brookville got their first order for their Liberty streetcar. Dallas wanted just two to start, all the other manufacturers wouldn’t go that small on an order,

As for the CCC, I Understand SDoT and Metro had got the estimates wroNG, but I wonder if all sides are ignoring the multimodal network effect, tying RapidRide, LINK, Sounder in, as well as both WSF and Passenger only ferries. Buses can be rerouted, and the lack of service on 1st Ave is proof of that. Also, Bus Rapid Transit is turning into not delivering on its promise. Albuquerque is one example. Although ABQ wanted an electric bus, and it was not a proven design.

“I wonder if all sides are ignoring the multimodal network effect”
It sounds like you’re describing what I’m hearing from people who are getting out. NYC is no picnic as far as apt leases and comuting. And it can be tricky at first for newcomers trying to learn how to get around and work within the transpo system. But it seems to take most people only a year or so, and perhaps one relocation to get dialed in.

I keep running into people leaving Seattle because they find that process too difficult there for newcomers starting out. A year after arriving they’ve probably got to either find a new place or renew their lease for another 12 months. But in any big city thats a complex multi-variable problem. Putting together various disconnected links in a fragmented transportation system with a rental market broken up by nimby hostility, and workplaces, schools, retail, and entertainment spread around by a chaotic history of urban planning can be overwhelming. If it takes someone more than a year or so some of them will look for a way out.

Having lost more than a dozen of her most important sponsors, Laura Ingraham is now on vacation indefinitely. And next week her Fox time slot will be occupied by fill ins.
Well done, HelpDesk!

That kid is only seventeen years old. He hasn’t even graduated from high school yet. He’s probably more focused on his calculus mid term than trailerbilly gun fapping.
And still he kicked your asses.
#winning

With Ted Nugent adding to the chorus of right-wing hate, students who survive school shootings are now pathetic bigoted, mushy-brained, constitution-ripping, crisis-acting, lying Nazis who have no soul.

When told that right-wing gun freak pedophile Ted Nugent was coming for them, the student survivors, having just taken down Laura Ingraham, laughed at him.

Own cow – get fresh milk when and where you want it, right out of the tap.

“Free” milk – you get what you pay for. Days old and digested and pissed out by everyone willing to pay for it before you even get to taste it.

The shit I’ve been reading this past week, and probably had the opportunity to act on while the market was open, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit won’t see until this weekend and won’t be able to act on until Monday.

Here’s an example, Newt: On October 20 of last year Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit notoriously recommended GE to you and specifically referred to the juicy dividend it paid as one of the reasons GE was one of his largest positions. However, had Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit had a Barron’s subscription, he would have been able to read this, which was published only the previous day:

GE: Options Market Sees More Trouble Ahead

The options market is treating General Electric’s dividend cut as a fait accompli.
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With the stock at $23.19, Goldman’s derivatives strategists advised clients to buy GE’s November $23 put for 66 cents.
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Many people have invested their retirement savings in GE because they thought the dividend was sacrosanct, and the business portfolio was among the world’s best-run. They have been proved wrong.

Imagine if Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit had read that the GE dividend was thought by the market to be decimated, the day before he relied in substantial part on that same dividend to support his contention that GE was a worthwhile investment. He could have avoided adding to the credibility of the Dumbfuck label with which he has been saddled.

Newt, do you understand, now, why some things are worth paying for, even if they can be had, elsewhere, for “free”?

I can pick out millionaires and billionaires who never earned a college degree, perhaps starting with local boy made good Bill Gates. Would that persuade you? No? Then why do you think I would be persuaded by a cherry-picked list of liberal arts degree-holders who have excelled, Newt?

To hear Doctor Dumbfuck tell it, all you need is a home subscription to Barron’s and you can be reeeech just like him.
Then spend your “Golden Years” scraping moss of your porch, caging free samples at Costco, bartering for “senior discounts” at the Cheesecake Factory and trying to provoke a pity-smile from the H.S. cheerleaders at the DQ.
Oy.
If only he’d known thirty five years ago that all those weekends and vacations spent hitting the books, all those years of unbearably long hours for less than min wage, and all those close encounters with homeless scrot cheese would ultimately come to this.
Talk about bad investments.

You were berating the liberal arts degree Dr. Dumbfuck, you never said anything about people, like Bill Gates, that never completed a college degree (to be fair, I did point out Steve Jobs attended Reed, I never said he graduated, so he was my defacto rich person that dropped out, like Bill Gates). Deflect, deflect, deflect, you are a one-trick pony.

All I did was point out people that were successful with a liberal arts degree and apparently you couldn’t accept that some people are successful with a BA. Some are successful with a BS, some without a degree. I think you will find the percentages of successful people that graduate from liberal arts institutions is very high, as compared to other types of schools. Take a look at alumni from Williams College https://alumni.williams.edu/.

With that said, investing in a liberal arts degree is a very good investment. A medical degree from a banana republic, not so much. With commentary like you are providing, you make Piddles look almost coherent.

Finally, “Nothing wrong with a BA if you can afford to earn one.” If you have the smarts, skills, drive, and desire, you can earn a liberal arts degree, despite the cost. There are things called scholarships, financial aid, and student loans, that can be obtained if one truly wants to earn a BA. Problem is, most students are lazy and want mommy and daddy to pay for it and are satisfied with going to a large state/public school to be churned out into the world like factory cheese.

Third tier? Ha! Back-bencher like you make all the HA regulars look brilliant.

3)I’ve read about the mess of commuter rail operations in NYC, and ironically, the Private Sector is responsible. The PRR/New York Central rivalry, though the MTA did not help make it better. Separate Stations, even third rail connectors were different. I have seen some of the suggestions the Regional Plan Association had to make the three networks more like the RER in Paris, or the S-Bahn in Germany.

I would like to see the Swiss/German model applied here but it is more than just multimodal connections, it’s integrated timetables, and fare networks. We have buses that operate on flat fares, while LINK and Sounder are distance based. With the ORCA card, perhaps zonal fares are not a bad idea,

News to Fat Donny, “Boosted by e-commerce, the Postal Service has experienced double-digit increases in revenue from delivering packages, but that hasn’t been enough to offset pension and health care costs as well as declines in first-class letters and marketing mail.”

Amazon isn’t the problem. In fact, if Amazon hadn’t come along and increased package shipping, the U.S. Postal Service would probably be in much worse shape.

If they want to save money, cut down on the marketing mail, that would also help the recycling problem to some degree. I can’t think of anything I’ve ever purchased from direct marketing mail, it all just gets recycled.

I received a letter from Waste Management today explain how the ban requires them to ask for a surcharge from the UTC. Fucking bullshit if you ask me. We’ve been pushed towards recycling for years, now we just have separated piles that go to landfills.

China announced their ban in July 2017, WM and other’s have had time to be proactive, but no, they just want to raise the rates so they can just dump it in the landfill.

@35 and you know why the US Postal Services is having problems with pension and the profits right? The Repuke Congress passed a law that requires the USPS to fund their pension something like ep or 50 years up front and since then it’s been harder for them to turn a profit.

1. States’ rights. Different states have different laws. There’s that silly US Constitution interfering with liberal hopes and dreams again. Someone ought to amend that amendment.

2. The Texas woman is a felon, and had served three years in federal prison for defrauding the government of nearly $5M when she prepared taxes. Then she committed another felony, which was based on her felon status, when she voted. Somehow we are supposed to believe that she’s smart enough to steal $5M before she’s caught, and yet she isn’t smart enough to understand the meaning of the word Affidavit.

3. The Texas woman had an opportunity for a jury trial, and decided against it.

Since the judge’s name is Ruben Gonzalez, perhaps the racism you allege is not of the white vs. black variety. Too bad this would not fit your preferred narrative.

Steve, you’re better than this.

Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, you were a useless attorney and your position on this is no surprise. The only time you surprise, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, is on the rare occasion you get something right.

Nice piece in the Seattle Times about the repeated smackdowns suffered by the Seattle City Council when their moronic intrusions are reviewed by the courts.

Meet the pin to Seattle’s liberal bubble: Attorney Ethan Blevins

In the past two years, three city ordinances have been struck down by judges for being unconstitutional or overreaching. In all three, Blevins and his two-lawyer Bellevue office of the Pacific Legal Foundation were involved in suing the city.

“I think the city sees itself as an activist in its own right,” he says. “Not a government weighing the pros and cons of an issue, but an activist. I’d say that’s where most of the problems originate.”

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looks to me like every one of those were argued by house counsel in your city atty’s office. Cost the taxpayers almost nothing. Better way to spend their money than hiring Badge Bunny firms to defend corrupt cops on violent roid-rage sprees.

The Pacific Legal Foundation is a Sacramento, California-based legal organization to support pro-business causes. In recent years, it has taken a lead in pursuing anti-affirmative action policies.
It is the key right-wing public interest litigation firm in a network of similar organizations to support capitalism and oppose environmental and health activism and government regulation.

To be precise, to support pro real estate investment and pro development causes. They position themselves as “Libertardian”, but they are anything but. They lobby tirelessly for taxpayer subsidies, public investment schemes, and a plethora of special tax treatment for their real estate and development investments and expenses.

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